no code implementations • 29 Jul 2020 • Emily Toomey, Ken Segall, Matteo Castellani, Marco Colangelo, Nancy Lynch, Karl K. Berggren
As the limits of traditional von Neumann computing come into view, the brain's ability to communicate vast quantities of information using low-power spikes has become an increasing source of inspiration for alternative architectures.
no code implementations • 29 Jun 2019 • Emily Toomey, Ken Segall, Karl K. Berggren
Building on an architecture first proposed for Josephson junctions, we rely on the intrinsic nonlinearity of two coupled nanowires to generate spiking behavior, and use electrothermal circuit simulations to demonstrate that the nanowire neuron reproduces multiple characteristics of biological neurons.
